This article, produced by Marbleseed, introduces currants and gooseberries as nutritious, high-yielding specialty fruits well suited to organic farms in the Upper Midwest. It highlights key production considerations for new growers - including harvest labor, variety selection, pruning and training systems, weed and disease management, and the tradeoffs between currants’ ease of production and gooseberries’ greater labor and disease challenges.

This factsheet, produced by Marbleseed, provides guidance for growers in the Upper Midwest seeking to plan a small-scale, commercial organic orchard. It outlines topics including site selection, fruit and cultivar selection, tree density, site preparation, soil amendments, and layout.

This guidebook, produced by the Midwest Organic & Sustainable Education Service (MOSES, now Marbleseed), provides a comprehensive overview of the organic certification process. It provides a step-by-step certification timeline, and covers allowed vs. prohibited substances, organic crops, organic livestock, organic dairy, organic processing & handling, and marketing strategies.

This article, published by the Organic Agronomy Training Service (OATS), provides guidance to farmers seeking to understand both short- and long-term market data for the organic grain market.

This article, published by Organic Agronomy Training Service (OATS), outlines a holistic approach to organic weed management in soybeans, emphasizing that effective control begins long before planting through rotation design, seedbank reduction, and sound agronomy.

This factsheet, produced by Marbleseed, provides guidance on the organic certification process and how to select an organic certifier. Learn about record-keeping, applying for certification, selecting a certifier, and more.

This guidebook, published by Cornell University Cooperative Extension, provides science-based guidance for organic apple production. This guide will help growers produce high-quality apples while utilizing organic techniques and systems.

This factsheet, published by Marbleseed, is designed to help producers navigate the complexities of managing split and parallel production systems while maintaining organic integrity.

This factsheet, published by Marbleseed, provides guidance to organic farmers on how to implement buffer zones to protect crops from contamination.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, outlines an organic-approved spray schedule for field-grown cucumbers, presenting a chronological disease timeline along with example application timings and materials. It emphasizes proactive use of preventative tools and cultural practices to help manage key cucurbit diseases in commercial, organically managed production systems.

This factsheet offers organic-compatible strategies focused on cultural practices and biological and botanical fungicides to help specialty-crop producers build integrated disease-management programs—emphasizing prevention, careful timing of applications and combining multiple tactics for best results.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, presents a disease timeline and example organic spray schedule for common diseases affecting spring and fall field-grown cole crops. It highlights the importance of applying fungicides and bactericides before disease onset, lists example products and timing suggestions, and directs users to the full pesticide guides for more comprehensive lists.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, outlines organic-approved spray schedules for commercial field-grown green beans, presenting both a disease-timeline of major bean pathogens and an example program of OMRI-listed fungicides and bactericides.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, presents a comprehensive timeline of the major diseases that can affect field-grown winter squash and provides a sample organic-certified spray schedule designed to be both proactive and preventive.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, provides an organic commercial spray schedule for field production of melons, detailing the timing of major diseases and example organic-approved fungicides/bactericides. It emphasizes the importance of applying treatments before disease onset and offers a framework for growers to develop preventative programs in certified organic systems.

The factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, presents a timeline of the key diseases that affect field-grown tomatoes and provides a sample spray-schedule tailored for certified organic production systems. It highlights preventive application of approved compounds and emphasizes the importance of integrating cultural practices to manage disease and sustain yields.

This factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, presents a disease timeline for key pathogens affecting field-grown summer squash and zucchini, and outlines an example organic spray schedule. It emphasizes applying treatments preventively and integrating cultural practices with fungicide and bactericide use.

The factsheet, published by the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, presents a timeline of the most important diseases affecting field-grown pepper crops and outlines a detailed example spray schedule tailored for certified organic production systems.

This report, published by University of Minnesota Extension, benchmarks the financial performance of certified organic, partially organic and transitioning farms in Minnesota and Wisconsin from 2020 to 2022, covering whole-farm profitability, liquidity, solvency, operator/labor characteristics and enterprise-level data.

This guidebook, published by Iowa State University, presents the practical findings of a three-year project focused on the use of mesotunnels to manage insect pests and diseases in organic cucurbit production. It covers how to construct and maintain mesotunnels, integrate them into insect/disease scouting and weed-management regimes, and ensure effective pollination when using these physical barriers.